i’m blogging in the chronicle

A few months ago, I had a blow out because I was asked to review 8 articles in one month. This resulted not in a review, but rather a blog post. Shortly thereafter, I started receiving inquiries from the American Sociological Association’s offices encouraging me to submit the piece to our disciplinary newsletter, Footnotes. The […]

back at it

Probably this is very stupid, but I’ve been at it for 10 days or so now, so I might as well go public: I’m Blue Monstering again…

the peer review system is broken

This entry has been temporarily removed by the author. I’ll explain soon, in a subsequent post!

a new spin on an old favorite

Recently, I have been receiving a lot of vacation mail notices.  Ordinarily, people say either they are going to be slow responding while they are away or that they won’t respond until they return.  But the two below two basically state that because the email was received while they are away, that they probably won’t […]

ctrl-alt-del

Upon hearing that Obama had won the election, my 12-year-old son responded, “Excellent!  In two-and-a-half months, the United States can reboot!”  Best metaphor I’ve heard yet.

i’m calling it at 9:22–obama wins

With those that have been called at this point, plus the sure thing states of CA, WA, OR, and IA, Obama just went over 270!

i’m pink, therefore i’m spam

In case you were wondering how the October of Pink turned out, I want to report that thanks to many good souls including some of our scatterfriends, I raised slightly over $2800 by wearing pink all month!  This culminated on the final day when I wore ALL pink and rode a pink bike all over […]

i’m just going to beat the rush and get my prediction in now

You wouldn’t believe the amount of science that went into this post if I told you, so I’m not even going to try.

what page is that on?

Today I picked up a magazine. The Table of Contents was found on page 96. Choosing the next 30 pages, 97-126, as a sample, I discovered that exactly two of them contained page numbers. Both of these page numbers were on pages containing material not covered in the table of contents (one was a continuation […]

so profound

The power of email. It brings me wonders like these deep thoughts.

pink in october

Hey scatterbrains:  This October our College goes on a big fundraising drive for cancer services.  This year I’m trying to rev up the fun and energy around the drive by wearing pink to work every work day during October.  And I’ve established a little blog to explain what I’m doing, post pictures of what I […]

it’s all downhill after the first day

So, how am I holding up under the administrative yoke, you may ask (or not, but the answer will come anyhow). The truth is that the job is demanding–mostly people demanding money for their projects and initiatives, that is, but the position has its satisfactions and successes. As when I chaired my department, however, I […]

that obama/mccain thing is so over…vote for me!

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email victory

Way back in May, I reported my attempt to achieve the unthinkable: the zero message e-mail inbox. Mine had swollen to 1300 messages and I had to try to cut it down to get my sanity back. At this time of that report, it seemed like the goal was well within reach. I’d progressed all […]

#28: Ripcord

Those few of you who read my now-deceased blog, Blue Monster, may be wondering how I am doing keeping up with my new year’s resolution of doing 50 things in 2008 that I have never done before. I won’t bore you with all of them, but I thought some might enjoy a peek at number […]